Social communication between virtual characters and children with autism

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6738 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 7-14

  Alcorn, Alyssa ^a   Pain, Helen ^b   Rajendran, Gnanathusharan ^c   Smith, Tim ^d   Lemon, Oliver ^a   Porayska Pomsta, Kaska ^e   Foster, Mary Ellen ^a   Avramides, Katerina ^e   Frauenberger, Christopher ^f   Bernardini, Sara ^e  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autism spectrum disorder; HCI; joint attention; social communication; technology enhanced learning; virtual character; virtual environment

Indexed keywords

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; JOINT ATTENTION; SOCIAL COMMUNICATION; TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISEASES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 79959309805     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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